On - Accounting Lead - Yokohama

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Finance

In short

Are you the hands-on finance enthusiast we are seeking for? We are excited to offer this role to a process and numbers’ driven team player who support our APAC finance and JP finance topics. With your proven technical finance skills, your experience in different areas of local accounting and tax, and your high IT affinity, you will contribute to today’s local compliance and shape tomorrow’s processes.
This is your opportunity to join one of the world’s fastest-growing sports brands and to grow in a position of real scope and high impact!

Your mission

– Account for GL, FA and statutory tasks in coordination with APAC finance and local external consultants (mainly accounting, tax and legal)
– Independently and accurately process our daily business tasks within general ledger (including FA)
– Be responsible for the local layer accounting booking and support local tax fillings as requested
– Actively challenge, adapt and automate our global and local processes
– Perform internal controls, streamline Japan cross-functional processes and ensure up-to-date process documentation
– Collaborate with APAC AR team and support and structure the AR process and complete some hands-on AR tasks on the interim basis
– Contribute to exciting ad hoc tasks

Your story

– Willingness to take ownership of multiple financial topics at a time and having the ability to adapt to a continually changing environment and new ways of working.
– Ability to consider both the details of the daily business as well as the big picture within project work related to finance and operations
– Motivation to be part of building up state-of-the-art finance/accounting function
– IFRS knowledge and/or experience with D365 desirable
– Proven analytical, conceptual thinking and problem-solving skills
– Passion for sports, fitness and/or running
– Fluent in Japanese, with strong business level of English language skill
– Multiple APAC cultures exposed

Meet the team

Join our ambitious Japan team and become part of our forward-thinking and action-orientated APAC finance team to help us be compliant and bring the right data to the right people to make the right decisions. We continuously strive to improve, facilitate our fast growth, and shape best-practice by thinking differently, challenging the status quo, and bringing improvements through the use of new technology and practices.